“There are lots of process improvement advocates in our organizations today espousing best practices to significantly or incrementally improve the performance of the work we do. Many of these practices, methodologies and techniques have a heritage such as industrial engineering, quality management, measurement, IT requirements and other precedents. Which is the best for you? Is it one of them such as six sigma? Is your organization enamoured with Toyota and Lean? Is BPM different from these? This panel will feature an examination of these questions and strive to find the similarities and differences among them. It will also aim to project the future of the approaches. Are they converging? What can we expect?